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The Book of Saints
The Book of Saints
Author: Nino Ricci
This debut novel masterfully evokes a tiny Italian community in the Apennines. It's 1960, the inhabitants pay tribute to the Virgin, but neither modernity nor religion has gained ascendancy over popular awe of "the tremendous forces which envy stirred up, forces age-old and sacred, ones that found their incarnation in the evil eye." — Narrator Vi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679401186
ISBN-10: 0679401180
Publication Date: 5/28/1991
Pages: 237
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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Young Vittorio Innocente is the pampered son of Cristina, a woman whose husband has left for Italy for work in North America. Beneath her placid surface Cristina yearns to escape the restictive village and one day Vittorio is startled to find her in the families stable, her ankle swelling from a snakebite. But what really happened to Cristina that day becomes the center of this tale- a story of passion and superstition beneath pastoral calm, a mothers secret life...


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